Black Patch War
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History, Economics
- Subcategories: Business, Trade, Commerce, Industry, Manufacturing, Factories, Violence
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950
- Geographical Location: Tennessee, Kentucky
- Date: 1904-1909
Article abstract: At issue: Low tobacco prices and monopolistic marketing practices. Result: Social disorder, though the violence called attention to the devastating effects of monopolies.
Background
Three related economic trends of the late nineteenth century made tobacco farming in western Kentucky and Tennessee a precarious occupation. As prices for tobacco steadily declined in the wake of the U.S. return to the gold standard in 1873 and as tobacco companies acted on a growing preference for light tobacco, the American Tobacco Company drove virtually...
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